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A Manic-depressive Boy's Dream in the Summer of 1969 (2 Volumes in Total)

(germany) Frank Wetzel

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This book is a novel that the author spent fifteen years writing. It won the 2015 German Book Award. The novel describes the ignorant youth years experienced by a boy from the Federal Republic of Germany and his peers from the late 1960s to the 1970s. It reflects the author's profound analysis of the society of the post-war Federal Germany. It was a turbulent era. Young people in European and American societies sharply criticized the various shortcomings of Western society. Young people in the Federal Republic of Germany vowed to investigate the culpability of their parents in the Second World War. Popular culture such as rock music represented by the Beatles in the 1960s and 1970s also had a huge impact on the young generation.